I glanced at jvb, noticing how tired he looked. All of his training today had obviously made him too tired to be able to respond.
"Oh well, I'm not going to stand here and let him get gutted," I muttered to myself. I let fly with an arrow that I hadn't even realized I had put in my bow. It struck the creature in the upper thigh and it screamed a high pitched shrill noise that made me instinctively cover my right ear to filter out some of the noise. Then it started to growl, a low rumble that slowly reached a full throated roar. It seemed that roaring must have been its way of warning us, because just then it rushed at jvb with it sword raised above its head, preparing for a downward strike that would surely kill jvb if he succeeded.
(Note to self - full throated rumbly roar = charging monster)
